Seneca’s errors about time management

Despite his remarkable philosophical and literary skills, the Roman author #seneca (4 BC-65 AD) made grievous mistakes in his approach to #timemanagement . I find it important to look at his mistakes because many people keep making those more than twenty centuries after Seneca’s death. What’s the underlying problem in Seneca’s errors about time management? The lack of an integrated view of human action, purpose and motivation. Seneca gained some valid #insights on the subject, but failed to get the complete picture. I find it easier to explain Seneca’s mistakes by comparing his ideas about time management with those of #aristotle (384-322 BC), especially with the Aristotelian concept of happiness in the “Nicomachean Ethics” and “Eudemian Ethics.” When Seneca recommends to focus on life’s essential goals, discard distractions and conduct ourselves according to reason, he is giving sensible advice, but at the same time, he is raising new questions. What did Seneca mean by “life’s essential goals”? How did he tell distractions apart from essential activities? How did he define “living according to reason”? If we deepen ourselves into Seneca’s works, we can find his answers to those questions, but the answers will again employ poorly defined terms, for which we’ll have to undertake a new inquiry. Indeed, it would be a never-ending story to put together in a comprehensive manner Seneca’s views on time management. It is the opposite of Aristotle because, instead of giving pearls of isolated wisdom, Aristotle gave us integrated principles. In contrast to Seneca, Aristotle clearly defined the #purpose of human life, namely, happiness. He also identified the path to happiness, namely, #personaldevelopment , focused steady work and virtue. Here is the link to the original article: https://johnvespasian.com/senecas-errors-about-time-management/